Robby Grodin Posts

You’ve got a business, it has a name, it’s time to make it official. All you need to do is just buy the domain. But… wait… 😱 What do you do? You could just buy the domain… but that’s never cheap. I’ve heard tales of crafty visionaries who are now…

This post was originally a release note I sent while working at Wayfair, and is now a blog post on their Engineering blog. I’d be remiss to republish without noting that while this perspective piece sounds fairly dogmatic, it shouldn’t be taken as such. ORMs are useful tools in any…

A few years back I built a twitter board for my friends at Metter Media. The prototype worked well and got a lot of use, but we decided it was time to make a real product out of this concept. Building an asynchronous streaming Twitter display board with admin controls…

Writing blog posts just about technical topics and speaking events is stressful, mainly because those topics tend to carry a lot of baggage. Because of this, It’s been a while since I’ve posted about the events I’ve been speaking at. The two mitigating factors are 1) I’ve stepped down my…

After an incredibly busy year of events, I’ll be taking the month of November off to focus on family time and getting Wayfair ready for our biggest time of year. I have a few classes at General Assembly in early December, listed below But first, I just wanted to mention…

I get a lot of people asking about my various classes and speaking events, so I figured it would be fitting to write a monthly “What’s Happening?” post to keep everything in one place. Here’s a brief overview of the events I have planned for October: October 5th: Talk Data…

It’s never been more simultaneously easy and difficult to find career advice. If you follow, for example, Inc. Magazine, Business Insider, or Forbes on any social media channel, you know that there are thousands upon thousands of articles that claim to have the right answer when it comes to changing…

My focus in an engineering org is to increase the quality and health of the codebase. Nobody wants to work in a code base infested by monolithic legacy files. In my time working with enterprise services I have experienced many different stages of code health. At their biggest, companies suffer…

As Daytime Coordinator, I’ve dedicated the past 6 months of my life to Together Boston, New England’s largest Art, Music, and Technology festival. I was able to have a huge impact on the festival experience, and with the help from the steering committee, promo team, and various volunteers, we’ve paved the…

My current position at the MIT Humans and Automation Lab is as fulfilling a job can be, without having the presence of media technology that I crave. I have learned and accomplished more in this position than anywhere else, but unfortunately once the project I am on ends next fall,…